Hateful, petty people have always strutted around thinking themselves to be highly "sophisticated" and "liberal" people.
What, did you think that hateful, petty people go around thinking they're "hateful, petty people?"
No, they fancy themselves the saviors of mankind, themselves as their gift to humanity -- and never, that they are the hatred, bigotry, violence and prejudice in the world.
Of course they think they're superior to everybody else. That's the only way they can motivate themselves to go on with their shoddy existences -- deluding themselves into thinking they are more enlightened than everybody else -- even somebody else.
If they weren't transferring their hatred to somebody else, there'd only be themselves to loathe, despise and make fun of.